SmartDeploy Reviews & Product Details

It is quick and easy to deploy images again. Easy to update driver packs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost is my only concern. But it is about national average Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SmartDeploy is a fast and easy way to image new hardware, maintain current deployments, and save time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have any dislikes for the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to prep notebooks for new users quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bogs down the network when you attempt to image several systems simultaneously Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and navigation make it a snap to manage our PCs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maybe price per device would be the only drawback of the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The quick and easy setup of the console along with superb documentation makes getting up and running with SDE super easy. Then having the one golden image that works across any enterprise Windows device makes imaging as simple as it can be. The ability to easily refresh/re-image your entire fleet is made simple by SDE and their downloadable platform packs that contain ALL necessary drives for most all enterprise grade Windows machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing not to like is that SDE isn't free. There is literally nothing that I don't enjoy and recommend about SDE. SDE is one of my three go-to tools that will travel with me no matter where I am working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many different options for setup and deploying, it has a vast array for various different user setups. You can configure to deploy the OS and configurations, as well as user apps and profiles. It makes for a very easy and hands off deployment for many more machines at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Takes time for users to really learn and start using to a beneficial extent. Fairly complex. but that is to be expected. You can look at videos and forums to learn more about it to really implement it to your needs. There is a lot to learn and it can take a lot of time, but it is worth doing to make it as powerful and effective for your organization as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SmartDeploy is very user friendly. It doesn't take long to learn about the program. It keeps getting and better and that's a good sign of a company who stands behind its product.

I have used Microsoft Deployment Tool Kit in the pass and that was a pain to manage. Since the COVID19 outbreak, we had to start imaging many computers for users working from home. Our manager told us "SmartDeploy saved our butts". If it wasn't for SmartDeploy, we would have to truly spend double or triple the amount of time for setting up all the required equipment. We are truly thankful for having such a wonderful tool to assist us in such a difficult time. SmartDeploy is the ultimate tool for deploying/imaging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SmartDeploy searches are slow on the server side. We have a little more than 300 computers but the delays are there when trying to search. Typing in partially the computer name will take time for it to refresh the result. I'm sure SmartDeploy will keep improving since this is a minor issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Smart Deploy has worked very well for our law firm of about 90 users. We evaluated several other solutions such as Kace and SCCM, and Smart Deploy was the easiest to use and meets all of our needs. The actual time to set it up was done in hours, not days or weeks. We were testing it on the first day we started rolling it out. The most time consuming part was simply creating our master image the way we wanted it. The support team has been exceptionally responsive and accommodating on creating some Platform Packs for some HP consumer grade laptops for us. We can literally take a new PC from its box to fully imaged in about 20 minutes. We are primarily using the Offline Deployment option because it is so simple to use. Overall, we are very pleased with Smart Deploy and can highly recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have much that I don't like. There are several options for deploying images and we have not had a chance to figure out some of the more advanced options yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SmartDeploy makes it easy to image a computer, attach it to our domain and our Wi-Fi network. I really like the platform packs and how they automate updating drivers both at install and across the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clients occasionally lose connection with the deployment server. I really want the console to be multi-user so that my team can work with the cloud options on their own without requiring a single non-shared cloud account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Personally I enjoy not having to install all the drivers on every computer that I am imaging. SmartDeploy takes care of installing the correct drivers on the correct computer models and if there is a computer with specialized hardware installed i can setup a special driver package that will then be installed when the computer is imaged. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have had a few failures when imaging computers but thankfull they are easy to fix. I would simply make a SmartDeploy bootable USB and tell the machine to start imaging once again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.